IHS Markit estimated the global mobile C-arm market at $932 million in 2018; unit shipments for flat panel detector mobile C-arm systems forecast to grow by 10.3% through to 2023. Speculation and uncertainty arises as to whether the innovative technology and imaging capabilities that 3D mobile C-arm systems offer, will offer similar growth opportunity as forecast for the digital mobile C-arm market.

With the growing trend to focus on the quality of care provided by healthcare institutions, the critical care ventilator market has seen several transitions over the last few years. The ventilator market in developed regions is largely saturated; additionally, with continued focus on reducing healthcare spending, these markets are becoming increasingly price sensitive.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) play a vital role in the future of the Internet of Things (IoT). At last week’s IoT World in Santa Clara, this was a major focus with a track dedicated solely to the topic.

A new industry consortium called the Open Eye MSA Group has formed to look at new techniques to enable lower cost, power-efficient, and latency-optimized optical transceivers for 50G, 100G, 200G, and 400G data center applications. The group’s long-term goal is to increase the adoption of PAM4-based optical transceivers by using lower cost, mature (at lower speeds) analog techniques for clock and data recovery (CDR). Cost and power dissipation are two of the most important considerations for data center operators evaluating datacom transceivers. Using analog CDR minimizes the need for digital signal processing and should reduce cost and power consumption. Another benefit to using analog CDR is a significant reduction in latency, which is important in many time-sensitive applications. MSA founding members Semtech and MACOM contend that transceivers incorporating CDR in place of the current PAM4 DSP will have lower cost and power dissipation because PAM4 DSPs are the most expensive and power-hungry item on the bill of materials. Clients, please log in to view the full content.

The number of TV households with pay TV access and free access to UHD linear channels marked a turning point in 2018. In IHS Markit’s latest survey of UHD channel carriage, in 8 of the 28 countries where pay TV operators provided linear UHD channels as part of a package, 25% or more of total TV households had access to linear UHD. Portugal was the country with the highest penetration of linear UHD availability, 82% of all TV households had the potential to receive a linear UHD broadcast as part of their pay TV package.

According to the latest numbers from app intelligence company Priori Data, Fortnite has seen its biggest iOS revenue surge since October 2018, generating upwards of $2.8m daily on the release of its latest season and more than quadrupling its daily pre-season net revenue overnight.

Huawei has been added to the Entity List by the US Department of Commerce. Companies or persons on the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Entity List are required to obtain a license before they can buy or transfer American technology.

The governments of Canada, Ontario, and Toronto formed the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, more commonly known as Waterfront Toronto, in 2001 to turn Toronto’s waterfront into a vibrant urban development.

Global TV demand in Q1'19 saw moderate growth, better than expected. Ongoing trade issues between the US and China have resulted in some very unusual shipment patterns in North America, which has led to some stockpiling of inventory. In an effort to control that inventory, price erosion has been huge in the US, which has spurred a boom in sell-through.
TCL shipments to retailers in North America surged, with the brand overtaking Samsung for the top market share position on a unit basis in Q1'19, though Samsung maintained the top market share on a revenue basis.
The attached analysis takes a highlight look at the results from Q1 2019 shipments, and our take on what happened.

IHS Markit has just published first quarter 2019 (Q1 2019) digital cinema data for the Cinema Operators Strategic Intelligence Service. These are the highlights from the exhibitors tracked in the Service for that quarter.

This presentation was given in May 2019 at the SID DisplayWeek Investor Conference and it provides insights of the crystal cycle of the display, the new technology integration and the new market and opportunities.